Interana Announces New Leadership Team

Team complements world class technology with deep enterprise go-to-market experience

September 4, 2018 - Redwood City, CA—Interana, developer of the most powerful event data platform, announced its new leadership team led by CEO Greg Smirin. Greg follows in the footsteps of founding CEO, Ann Johnson who remains on the company’s board. Smirin was chosen to lead the company, alongside CTO and co-founder Bobby Johnson, as the company has expanded to support customers with some of largest scale and most demanding operating environments in the Fortune 1000.

“As our customers rely on Interana to find critical business answers from their event data, they can’t go back to only seeing summary reports that most tools provide,” said Ann Johnson. “Greg has brought the experience needed to deploy our unique platform in the highly demanding enterprise market. I’ve enjoyed working with him to bring our new leadership team together and we’re excited to take the company to the next level.”

Companies that are equipped to make effective decisions, based on what each customer does, will outperform their competition. Understanding more about specific user experiences across digital and physical will improve customer journeys, increase content engagement, deliver better products, ultimately growing sales. Interana is providing the only event data platform that fundamentally changes the way all enterprise employees can make business decisions.

“A big change in business today is the proliferation of event data, which measures every customer action,” said Smirin. “The most iconic companies like Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft, use event data to understand what customers do; not just in aggregate or on average, but through each customer’s specific actions. With Interana’s event data platform, employees in every department can understand immediately how and why customers have problems, and what transforms a regular customer to a great customer.”

Greg joins Interana from leadership positions at the Climate Corporation, eHarmony, Proofpoint, and VeriSign, bringing more than 20 years’ experience in the industry. Notably, at Climate, he was part of a team that developed the first AgTech AI platform to help farmers increase their crop output and profitability in the face of increasingly extreme weather. Climate Corporation sold to Monsanto for $930 million.

Prior to joining Interana, CTO & co-founder Bobby Johnson, was Facebook’s Head of Infrastructure Engineering, who was tasked with the responsibility to deploy the team that would ultimately scale the company from millions to billions of users. One of his team’s strategic initiatives was to build the platform that provided employees with the ability to ask questions about specific event data, generated by its users. Internally called Scuba, the platform was adopted by more than 50 percent of Facebook’s employees.

“When we founded Interana, we quickly started to work with large enterprise customers, including Microsoft, with innovative use cases across a variety of verticals,” said Bobby Johnson. “With Greg and our experienced team, we will broaden our customer base and expand our use cases. We are seeing great demand across the Fortune 1000 for a variety of implementations in product development teams, customer success and engineering, and data science.”

Jamie Aliperti is VP, Customer Success, with 15 years of experience. Prior to joining Interana, he worked on developing a pre-sales framework for Localytics, resulting in 60 percent close rates; he also led pre- and post-sales, which helped retain and expand Fortune 500 customers.

Matt Green is VP, Customer Operations, with 15 years of experience. He was among the first 40 employees at Splunk, and helped the company grow to 10,000 paying customers, a team of 50+ engineers in three geographical territories, and ultimately grow support revenue to $200 million.

George Rekouts is VP, Engineering with more than 20 years of experience. Prior to Interana, George developed Efficient Frontier, a leader in optimizing multi-channel and auction-based digital advertising, which was acquired by Adobe in 2012. George also built and perfected industry leading platforms for Adobe, DemandBase, and Valuebase.

Ted Saludes is SVP, Worldwide Sales with over 25 years of experience in general management, sales management, and go-to market development in the tech industry. Prior to Interana, Ted held leadership positions at Hitachi, Unit4 and EMC, where he grew regional revenue by 300 percent.

Pete Sicilia is Chief Solutions Officer at Interana, leading the field, pre-sales, and customer success organizations - he has more than 20 years of experience. Prior to joining Interana, Pete served in various leadership roles at Splunk, where he played an instrumental role in moving revenue past the $1 billion mark.

Eddie White is VP, Business Development, with more than 20 years of industry experience. He has worked as a business development leader at Sentilla, Hitachi, and Pentaho. His leadership helped grow Pentaho’s business by 5X, which led to the sale of the company to Hitachi.

About Interana

Interana provides the only event data platform that enables companies to develop better products and deliver superior customer experiences by understanding each customer action – not just totals or averages. Our customers, including Asana, Comcast, Microsoft, and Sonos, rely on Interana to transform the way they make business decisions. Connect with us today at Interana.com, and on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn.